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Gangland: In Elsie’s River near Cape Town, where poverty and gangsterism are rife, young men congregating on street corners using or selling drugs, or ‘skarrelling’ through rubbish for usable items, is a common sight.

Cape Town’s desperate female gangster phenomenon

Research finds women and girls act as recruits, drug dealers and armed gangsters in the ‘deeply ingrained’ gang culture in the Western Cape

‘Levels of criminality in our society will not be reduced if
we never ask why and how people become monsters,’ writes Eusebius McKaiser. (Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

No cinematic escape from Cape Flats life

A new film forces us to examine the background to crimes associated with poverty and deprivation

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Jump or die: How a silver medallist leapt over the odds that marginalise drug users

A South African Olympic silver medallist achieved something remarkable, especially after testing positive for methamphetamine use in 2012.

Tik user Lance has been using for 14 years. “People must know what is going on.”

Tik-tock: Hangberg’s meth timebomb

Crystal meth may have trapped users in crimes, but it is also the fulcrum of an illicit economy that employs hundreds.

Tales from the Cape Flats morgue

A visit to the Salt River Forensic Pathology Service reveals the reality of SA’s violent deaths and the dedication of those who work there.

Complex organised crime networks are fuelling a health crisis that is getting worse and addiction treatment isn’t keeping up.

Ghost Town: A community tormented by drugs

VIDEO: Rhodes students Jonathan Jones and Bjorn Krietsch follow the stories of two Grahamstown families trying to come to grips with the ruinous effects of tik.

Studies have shown that tik users have more sexual partners.

Tik and HIV: A ticking time bomb

A study by the Centre for Health and Prevention Studies at New York University has found that the use of tik leads to dangerous sexual behaviour.

Tik addicts jailed for murder

A woman and two men who lured a young mother into their home to rob her of her car were on Thursday jailed by the Cape High Court.

Tik addicts jailed for 24 years each over petrol murder

Two tik addicts who doused a woman with petrol before setting her alight in an argument over a cellphone have each been jailed for 24 years.